Elite SAT Vocab 1101 - 1150

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Pecuniary

[Adj] Of or involving money

Flummox

[V] To confuse or perplex

Embed

[V] To fix in a surrounding mass

Rambunctious

[Adj] Very loud and disorderly

Interstices

[N] Small spaces between things

Potent

[Adj] Powerful; having a strong effect

Nepotism

[N] Strong favoritism to relatives

Amiable

[Adj] Friendly and agreeable; sociable

Congregate

[V] To assemble into a group

Demographics

[N] The distribution of human population groups

Ponderous

[Adj] Clumsy and heavy; boring and labored

Irony

[N] A use of words in which the intended meaning is very different from the literal sense; an incongruity between what might be expected and what actually occurs, esp. one that suggests a lesson about human folly